Guru Investment Theses on McDonald's Corp

Mason Hawkins Comments on McDonald's Corp - Oct 20, 2014

We initiated four new positions in the quarter: McDonald’s Corporation, Scripps Networks Interactive, Vivendi, and one undisclosed name. Food quality issues at McDonald (MCD)’s China supplier, minimum wage pressure in the U.S., Russian challenges, European macro concerns, and improvements at competing chains pressured the stock and enabled us to own the company’s valuable real estate and dominant breakfast business at a discount.

We initiated four new positions in the quarter: McDonald’s Corporation, Scripps Networks Interactive, Vivendi, and one undisclosed name. Food quality issues at McDonald (MCD)’s China supplier, minimum wage pressure in the U.S., Russian challenges, European macro concerns, and improvements at competing chains pressured the stock and enabled us to own the company’s valuable real estate and dominant breakfast business at a discount. Read more...

When I was a child in rural Arkansas, I remember being in the car with my parents when we passed a McDonald’s (MCD) outlet. McDonald’s was founded in California in 1940, but it took quite awhile for McDonald’s stores to arrive in Arkansas. Read more...

Using the GuruFocus Aggregated Portfolio Screener you can filter results to see what companies maintain the highest amount of guru ownership. By using this screener, we filtered down to see which consumer cyclical companies are held by the most gurus. As of the second quarter, the following five companies are held by the largest number of gurus. Read more...

In my introduction to the Magic Formula, we learned that the screen is made up of two components. The first being the company’s earnings yield and the second being its return on invested capital, or simply ROIC. For this article, I focus on earnings yield, the importance of it and how to calculate it. Read more...

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